Featured Blue House 23 January 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol’s Pizzagate Coup Brain rot caused by far-right YouTube channel fueled the president's ill-fated autogolpe.
Featured National Assembly 22 January 2025 The PPP Lawmakers Who Supported Self-Coup The shameful names that will go down in infamy.
Featured Newsletter 20 January 2025 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, January 2025 Yoon Suk-yeol traded the presidential residence for a jail cell. TBR returns (after an interrupted year-end break) with our first newsletter of 2025.
Featured Business & Economy 20 January 2025 Martial Law Destroys South Korean Stocks Political instability is bad for business.
Featured Society 17 January 2025 Sharp Jump in Immigration: Data South Korea saw one of world's highest rates of increase in immigration.
Featured Business & Economy 16 January 2025 Calm Before Calamity: South Korea’s Economic Slowdown After all, it is the economy, stupid.
Featured Conservatives 15 January 2025 Han Dong-hun’s Burner Accounts Anonymous posts by Han and his family appeared to want a dog leash around the First Lady.
Featured Breaking News 14 January 2025 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol is Arrested Long national nightmare over.
Featured Business & Economy 13 January 2025 Chaebols Revolt Against Shareholder Protection Proposal Democratic Party's legislation for greater shareholder rights is facing resistance from the largest corporations.
Featured Society 10 January 2025 Growing Acceptance for Childbirth out of Wedlock: Data Credit: Public domain. According to the Bureau of Statistics 통계청, 42.8% of Koreans in their 20s said it was acceptable to have children without getting married, a record high. The result is a significant increase from 2014, when 30.3% of respondents said out-of-wedlock childbirth was acceptable. 1.9k
Featured Courts 9 January 2025 Criminal Cases a Make-or-Break Moment for Lee Jae-myung For liberals, a moment of choice is drawing near: ride with Lee Jae-myung, or seek alternatives?
Featured Business & Economy 8 January 2025 USD-KRW Exchange Rate Soars on Trump Election Trump’s proposals for immigration crackdowns and higher tariffs are likely to cause greater inflation and stronger USD.
Featured Blue House 6 January 2025 Journalist Arrested for Reporting Yoon’s Golf Habits Yoon claimed he was practicing to meet with Donald Trump.
Featured Newsletter 31 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 4, December 2024 South Korea’s conservatives face down their potential demise.
Featured United States 27 December 2024 The 4B Movement Comes to America Once again, South Korean politics previews US politics.
Featured United States 26 December 2024 Trump Election Will Push South Korea Toward Nuclear Armament Nuclear experts in South Korea have long argued that the country could build its first bomb in a matter of months.
Featured Society 25 December 2024 One out of Ten Marriages is International: Data Vietnam, China and Thailand lead marriage immigration.
Featured Newsletter 23 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, December 2024 Troubling new details of Yoon Suk-yeol’s coup plans came to light, including assassinations, false flag operations and a war with North Korea.
Featured Business & Economy 23 December 2024 Democrats Drop the Financial Investment Income Tax Lee Jae-myung backs off from a new tax that could be a political liability.
Featured Blue House 20 December 2024 The Public Wants the Yoon Presidency to End: Data South Koreans have seen enough.
Featured Blue House 19 December 2024 For Yoon Suk-yeol, the Myeong Tae-gyun Bombshell May be the Beginning of the End Only eight PPP legislators stand between Yoon and impeachment or special prosecutor investigation.
Featured Business & Economy 18 December 2024 Yoon Administration Plunders Public Funds to Make Up for Deficit NHUF is the latest target.
Featured Newsletter 17 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, December 2024 Yoon Suk-yeol has been impeached - but the lawfare surrounding his coup attempt is only beginning.
Featured Culture 16 December 2024 Tigers Win the Korean Series The Gwangju team clinched the championship at home for the first time since 1987.
Featured Breaking News 14 December 2024 Breaking News Analysis: Yoon Suk-yeol is Impeached Voting and activism quelled the attempted coup.
Featured Society 13 December 2024 Record Highs in Miscarriage: Data The high rate of miscarriage is attributable to the rising age of pregnant women.
Featured Blue House 12 December 2024 Han Dong-hun Crosses the Rubicon Han's meeting with Yoon Suk-yeol ends in humiliation.
Featured Business & Economy 11 December 2024 SK Hynix Poised to Overtake Samsung in Semiconductors Down goes No. 1.
Featured Newsletter 9 December 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, December 2024 A failed attempt at a self-coup by Yoon Suk-yeol resulted primarily in uncertainty.
Featured Culture 9 December 2024 Kim Su-mi, 75, Star of "Country Diaries" Kim played a lovable grandmother role for 22 years, since age 30.
Featured Culture 6 December 2024 NewJeans at the National Assembly Hanni became a star witness in a hearing for workplace bullying.
Featured North Korea 5 December 2024 North Korea: the Centre Cannot Hold The Yoon administration's inter-Korean policies have failed completely.
Featured Business & Economy 4 December 2024 Increasing Number of “Freeters” More people work part time jobs that do not lead to a career.
Breaking News 3 December 2024 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol Declares Martial Law On December 3, 2024 at 10:23 p.m., President Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열 대통령 declared martial law 계엄령, in the first suspension of democratic rights in South Korea since the end of military dictatorship in 1987. In a statement, Yoon claimed that the National Assembly 국회's 22 impeachment
Featured Bureaucracy 2 December 2024 McCarthyist Historical Revisionism Creeps Back Yoon administration officials are once again claiming that the Gwangju Uprising was a communist plot.
Featured Business & Economy 29 November 2024 Wages Trend Upward: Data Average wage reached record high.
Featured Culture 28 November 2024 Han Kang’s Nobel Prize Makes History Han distinguishes herself with her intersection between historical events and bodily integrity.
Featured Business & Economy 27 November 2024 Samsung Electronics Issues an Apology for Poor Performance South Korea's leading firm is posting a dismal result.
Featured Newsletter 25 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 3, November 2024 Lee Jae-myung fought off one criminal charge, while more allegations against First Lady Kim Geon-hee came to light.
Featured Business & Economy 25 November 2024 Price of Kimchi Ingredients Skyrockets Customers are lukewarm to Chinese imports intended to relieve the pressure.
Featured Business & Economy 22 November 2024 Culinary Class Wars Lifts South Korea’s Fine Dining Scene The hit Netflix show is revitalizing the industry hit by the pandemic.
Featured Starter Kit 21 November 2024 Starter Kit: The Complex Legacy of Koreans in Japan The stateless Koreans in Japan are living testaments to Imperial Japan's colonialism.
Featured Foreign Policy 20 November 2024 Koreans Cool on Israel-Palestine Conflict: Data Attention to the conflict has declined since last year.
Featured Newsletter 18 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 2, November 2024 A criminal conviction leaves Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party at a crossroads.
Featured Blue House 15 November 2024 Increasing Demand for First Lady Investigation: Data Even the most loyal conservatives are turning on the president's wife.
Featured Blue House 14 November 2024 Latest Allegations Against First Lady: Election Interference Somehow, Kim Geon-hee adds yet another serious allegation to her long list.
Featured Business & Economy 13 November 2024 Hanwha Ocean Wins Key US Navy Contract The defense contractor is a newcomer to shipbuilding.
Featured Newsletter 11 November 2024 TBR Weekly Update: Week 1, November 2024 Donald Trump’s election drives Seoul closer to nuclear armament.
Featured History 11 November 2024 Obituary: Park Dong-seon, Mastermind of “Koreagate” The Korean American businessman was at the center of the lowest point in US-South Korea alliance.
Featured Society 8 November 2024 For Chuseok, Two Contrasting Looks: Data Some travel abroad; others avoid visiting home.
